Analysis of Moralistic Servants
Religious intolerance should be oxymoronic.
Instead it's ubiquitous,
a conduct quite sardonic.
Hypocrisy is rampant, incongruent with the creeds,
preach of love and practice hate:
manifested in misdeeds.
Hot-spots all over the globe, in past and present arose,
from distortions of beliefs
many deny or impose.
The crusades and pogroms massacred Muslim and Jew,
extant with other banners:
a current scourge to eschew.
All evil expeditions where faith-tenets instill harm,
must be disowned by leaders
and in all trigger alarm.
Fanatical zealots exercising bigotry,
are moralistic servants
of self-righteous idolatry.
Scheme | AXA BXB CXC DED FEF GXG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100100111 0110100 0011010 01001101101 1110101 100001 11110010101001 1010101 1001101 0010011001001 1011010 0101101 1100101110011 1101110 0011001 010010100100 101010 11100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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